ReviewCurrent nutrition reports2021
Lifestyle Adjustments in Long-COVID Management: Potential Benefits of Plant-Based Diets.
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- Impact of nutrition on long COVID.Sports medicine and health science · 2026Review
- The Potential of Plant-Based Lifestyle Interventions to Reduce the Burden of Disease in a Multi-Crisis Era.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2026Article
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- A Comprehensive Scoping Review on Diet and Nutrition in Relation to Long COVID-19 Symptoms and Recovery.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Toward a roadmap for addressing today's health dilemma-The 101-statement consensus report.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- The association between adherence to unhealthy plant-based diet and risk of COVID-19: a cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Interaction between economic status and healthy lifestyle in long COVID among Chinese older population: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2024Article
- The Effects of an Eight-Week Swimming Program on Body Composition and Assessment of Dietary Intake in Post-COVID-19 Patients.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2024Article
- Vegetarian and plant-based diets associated with lower incidence of COVID-19.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2024Article
- The Role of Diet and Specific Nutrients during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Have We Learned over the Last Three Years?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Adherence to a Vegetarian Diet is not Associated With Depression: Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys.Psychiatry investigation · 2023Article
- Patients' Post-/Long-COVID Symptoms, Vaccination and Functional Status-Findings from a State-Wide Online Screening Study.Vaccines · 2023Article
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- An Overview of Long COVID Support Services in Australia and International Clinical Guidelines, With a Proposed Care Model in a Global Context.Public health reviews · 2023Review
- Plant-based diet and COVID-19 severity: results from a cross-sectional study.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2023Article
- COVID-19: Reducing the risk via diet and lifestyle.Journal of integrative medicine · 2023Review
- Regulation of SARS-CoV-2 infection by diet-modulated gut microbiota.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Review
- Modification of Lifestyle to Recover from Post-COVID Symptoms: A Short Review.Journal of lifestyle medicine · 2022Review
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- Shiftwork Is Associated with Higher Food Insecurity in U.S. Workers: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study (NHANES).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThe SARS-CoV-2-pandemic has caused mortality and morbidity at an unprecedented global scale. Many patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 continue to experience symptoms after the acute phase of infection and report fatigue, sleep difficulties, anxiety, and depression as well as arthralgia and muscle weakness. Summarized under the umbrella term "long-COVID," these symptoms may last weeks to months and impose a substantial burden on affected individuals. Dietary approaches to tackle these complications have received comparably little attention. Although plant-based diets in particular were shown to exert benefits on underlying conditions linked to poor COVID-19 outcomes, their role with regard to COVID-19 sequelae is yet largely unknown. Thus, this review sought to investigate whether a plant-based diet could reduce the burden of long-COVID. RECENT
findingsThe number of clinical trials investigating the role of plant-based nutrition in COVID-19 prevention and management is currently limited. Yet, there is evidence from pre-pandemic observational and clinical studies that a plant-based diet may be of general benefit with regard to several clinical conditions that can also be found in individuals with COVID-19. These include anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, and musculoskeletal pain. Adoption of a plant-based diet leads to a reduced intake in pro-inflammatory mediators and could be one accessible strategy to tackle long-COVID associated prolonged systemic inflammation. Plant-based diets may be of general benefit with regard to some of the most commonly found COVID-19 sequelae. Additional trials investigating which plant-based eating patterns confer the greatest benefit in the battle against long-COVID are urgently warranted.
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